Learning about air pollution and child health

Our Air Pollution Companion, developed with Clinical Fellows, features a 'knowledge hub' and toolkits to help you communicate with families and advocate for change. Why not take a look as part of your CPD?

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Insights on the NHS 10 Year Plan

Over the past months, we've held workshops with children and young people, members and stakeholders in health research, and have submitted a summary of the insights to Change NHS.

Insights

Hope to see you at Conference

We're meeting in Glasgow, and online, next month from 26 to 28 March, and have an extensive programme of specialty sessions and workshops, with plenty of time to network.

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Apply for a College role

How might you share your professional expertise with us? We have lots of opportunities in child protection publications, audits, workforce planning and paediatric training, including the Chair of our Trainee Committee, and more!

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Announcement

25 February 2025

Help improve this website

We plan to change the way we organise our website content - and would love your help! If you're a College member, or regularly use our website, we invite you to test a new site structure with our remote testing tool.

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Blog

24 February 2025

On Martha's Rule - patient safety spotlight

By establishing patients' right to an independent review, this new rule now being tested in pilot sites across the country, can improve our ability as health professionals to recognise and respond to deterioration. We look at what this means for infants, children and young people.

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Blog

21 February 2025

RCPCH member update following NHS England launch of review into postgraduate medical training

On 19 February, NHS England launched a review of postgraduate medical training, to be led by Professor Sir Stephen Powis and the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Sir Chris Whitty.

Media response

21 February 2025

RCPCH responds to latest Government announcement on dentistry

Alongside the announcement of 700,000 extra urgent dental appointments, the Government has reiterated their plans to introduce supervised tooth-brushing scheme for 3-to-5-year-olds.

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Media response

20 February 2025

RCPCH responds to NHS Staff Survey analysis

Researchers from Nuffield Trust analysed data from 20 years of the NHS England Staff Survey to see if the experiences and motivations of clinical staff varied by age.